The programme is designed to provide professional training to suitably qualified and experienced people to enable them to become couple and individual counsellors and psycho therapists. Graduates of the programme will have completed a programme of theory and practice, equipping them to gain professional accreditation with appropriate bodies.

• Students are receiving training from the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships: a nationally recognised, reputable organisation which specialises in couple psychotherapy.
• At the end of the programme, graduates are eligible to apply for any paid work available with the agency
• The programme is accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

• First degree or equivalent professional qualifications/experience
• TCCR Graduate Certificate in Theory and Skills of Psychodynamic Couple and Individual Counselling and Psychotherapy or equivalent
• Relevant work experience
• Appropriate personal qualities
• i. Self-awareness, maturity and stability
• ii. Ability to make use of and reflect upon life experience
• iii. Capacity to cope with the emotional demands of the course
• iv. Ability to cope with the intellectual and academic requirement
• v. Ability to form a helping relationship
• vi. Ability to be self critical and use both positive and negative feedback
• vii. Awareness of the nature of prejudice and oppression
• viii. Awareness of issues of difference and equality
• ix. Ability to recognise the need for personal and professional support
• x. Competence in, or the aptitude to develop generic professional skills, including: literacy, numeracy, information technology, administrative skills, self management skills, communication and interpersonal skills
• Commitment to self-development and personal therapy
• Appropriate level of self-awareness in relation to motivation for learning about working with couples

Lectures, seminars, tutorials, self-reflective practice groups, workshops, experiential group work, self-directed study, clinical work, supervision, personal therapy, journal & professional log, assessed written work, presentation of seminar papers.

All students must successfully complete each year before proceeding to the next. All assessed work is coursework, which includes externally assessed essays; self, peer and external assessment of skills; and tutor reports on group work, journals & logs and seminars.

Following an assessment interview, students work as therapists in the agency. Full administrative support and practice rooms are provided.

The written assignments during the programme prepare students to think critically about the theory and practice of couple and individual counselling and psychotherapy, and act as a preparation for proceeding to an MA programme if they choose, and for the completion of a research-based dissertation.

The programme is designed to follow on from the TCCR Graduate Certificate in Theory and Skills of Psychodynamic Couple and Individual Counselling and Psychotherapy. This combination satisfies the education and training requirements for BACP Individual Counsellor Accreditation, and the majority of graduates from the programme have achieved individual accreditation with BACP

Many graduates of the programme have chosen to remain with TCCR for a period of time, in order to consolidate their clinical practice under supervision. Encouragement is given to pursue Continuing Professional Development, and training events are provided.

Graduates can set up in private practice as couple and individual counsellors and psychotherapists, confident in the knowledge they hold a reputable recognised qualification. And, if they choose, they can progress on to a number of advanced programmes in the field of couple and psychosexual therapy. 

Each student is assigned a personal tutor, with whom they hold regular meetings on an individual basis. Students also receive regular clinical supervision in a small group setting, plus one individual meeting a term.

Other staff, such as the Training Administrator and Programme Director, are also available for consultation.

On a practical level, TCCR has a, specialist library. Teaching buildings have common rooms with tea and coffee-making facilities.

• Because TCCR is a service agency, students have ready access to a wealth of client material, which provides the opportunity to integrate the clinical and theoretical aspects of the programme.
• The programme location is in central London, easily accessible by tube, bus and rail.  Teaching and clinical work is done either at Warren Street or Artillery Lane in the City of London.